On pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians and their Hermitian counterparts

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/8/010zbMATH Open1069.81018arXivquant-ph/0411171OpenAlexW3098250459MaRDI QIDQ4657654FDOQ4657654

Authors: Hugh F. Jones 

Publication date: 14 March 2005

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the context of two particularly interesting non-Hermitian models in quantum mechanics we explore the relationship between the original Hamiltonian H and its Hermitian counterpart h, obtained from H by a similarity transformation, as pointed out by Mostafazadeh. In the first model, due to Swanson, h turns out to be just a scaled harmonic oscillator, which explains the form of its spectrum. However, the transformation is not unique, which also means that the observables of the original theory are not uniquely determined by H alone. The second model we consider is the original PT-invariant Hamiltonian, with potential V=igx^3. In this case the corresponding h, which we are only able to construct in perturbation theory, corresponds to a complicated velocity-dependent potential. We again explore the relationship between the canonical variables x and p and the observables X and P.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0411171

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

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